Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAN'GUOR
LAN'GUOR, n. [L. languor; Fr. langueur.]
- Feebleness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude of body; that state of the body which is induced by exhaustion of strength, as by disease, by extraordinary exertion, by the relaxing effect of heat, or by weakness from any cause.
- Dullness of the intellectual faculty; listlessness. – Watts.
- Softness; laxity. To isles of fragrance, lily-silvered vales, / Diffusing languor in the parting gales. – Dunciad.
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